It Took 12 Years To Completely Map a Baby Fruit Fly’s Brain

TL;DR

If you want to understand something as big and complicated as the brain, it’s best to start small—really small. But that pales in comparison to the number of connections between these neurons, which comes to a grand total of 548,000. They also identified 93 distinct neurons that differed in shape, function, and neurological connection

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